Maximizing Your Potential

about a particular subject. We perish because of what we don’t know. No matter how great your dream is, if you don’t have the information relative to your plan, forget it. The Penalties of Ignorance The devil doesn’t destroy God’s people...the government doesn’t destroy God’s people.the economy doesn’t destroy God’s people.. .cocaine and marijuana don’t destroy God’s people. Ignorance destroys God’s people. This one thing is behind every destructive influence in our lives. God rejects those who reject His knowledge . In other words He says, “We can’t do business. You haven’t used the tools I gave you, so I can’t help you. You can’t even talk intelligently with Me.” Ignorance affects how God answers our prayers because we ask for things we don’t need or shouldn’t want. To ask rightly we must understand how we operate, how the devil operates, how the world operates, and how God operates. Asking God to do something for us before we understand these aspects of our situation is wasting our time and God’s. He must reject everything we request because our prayers and His ways, will, and desires for us do not line up. Ignorance affects how God answers our prayers because we ask for things we don’t need or shouldn’t want. Research your dream before you start working to achieve it. Learn everything you can about the business you want to start or the people you want to reach. You need good information to make right decisions. God also ignores the children of those who ignore His knowledge. This is true because your children learn what you know. If you don’t know anything, they aren’t going to learn anything, and they will thus make the same mistakes and have the same values and attitudes you have. Ignorance messes up the next generation. It destroys not only your fruitfulness but your children’s as well. Thus, you and your children reap what you sow, and your lack of information harms them . Our world is experiencing a multitude of human disasters that give evidence to this fact. Abortion, AIDS, environmental issues, drugs— all reveal the consequences of the rejection of knowledge by this generation and those that preceded us. In essence, ignorance is generational and transferable. The decision to pursue knowledge, improve understanding, and gain wisdom is a personal decision but not a private issue. Every book you read affects your grandchildren, so read and cultivate yourself for posterity. Twisted Values Our ignorance of God’s will and His ways has twisted our world. We devalue what God values and elevate what is insignificant to Him. He sees the